تصویر درد
ذرا دیکھ اس کو جو کچھ ہو رہا ہے، ہونے والا ہےدھرا کیا ہے بھلا عہد کہن کی داستانوں میں
English translation
Pay attention to what is happening and what is going to happen; what good there is in repeating the tales of the old glories?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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